🤔 Quick fact-check with ChatGPT: No need to spend ages Googling. If you’re unsure about something, paste it into ChatGPT and prompt, “Is this factually correct? Search the web and show recent sources.” Then follow up with “Are you sure?”
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🔍 Make Chrome easier to read: If text feels too small, open the three-dot menu > Settings > Appearance. Under Font size, set it to Large, and under Page zoom, bump it up to 125% (or more). You can also use Customize fonts to choose a style that’s friendlier on your eyes. 
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🎧 Quiet isn’t always better: Noise-canceling headphones protect your eardrums no matter how loud your Uncle Ralph’s hot political takes get. But it turns out, if you wear them nonstop, especially as a kid, your brain never learns to tune out background noise (paywall link). Doctors are now linking heavy use to auditory processing disorder, where everyday sounds feel overwhelming.
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Fix Windows without wiping everything: PC acting weird? Don’t rush to reinstall. Instead, reset while keeping your personal files. Go to Settings > System > Recovery > Reset PC, then select Keep my files. Apps and settings get removed, but documents stay safe. Bonus: Always back up to the cloud or a portable hard drive first.
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Pay-to-park warfare: A viral site let San Franciscans dodge parking tickets by showing where enforcement officers were in real time. The leaderboard showed one officer writing 192 tickets in a single day, over $20K in fines! The city patched the data feed within hours, killing the tool, after 50,000 people tried it.
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💾 Windows 10’s doomsday date: Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 10 support Oct. 14. Europe gets free updates for a year, but here in the U.S.? You’ve got three options: cough up $30, burn 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, or back up your stuff to OneDrive and pray you don’t run out of storage. Protection ends October 2026. 
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🕒 Customize your Mac lock screen clock: In macOS 26, you can change how the clock looks on your lock screen. Go to System Settings > Wallpaper > Clock Appearance. Choose if the clock shows on the Lock Screen, on both the Screen Saver and Lock Screen, or Never. Then pick from six fonts and adjust the Weight with the slider underneath.
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Search goes live: Google just dropped Search Live in the U.S. You point your camera, talk out loud, and it feeds you answers plus links in real time. Ask which munchies to grab or how to fix your busted fan, and boom, Google talks back. Free, no sign-up required. At this point, even my snacks are getting SEO’d.
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Take back your privacy: Your personal information is all over the internet on data broker and people-search sites. Incogni automatically removes your info from over 420 sites, and if you spot your info anywhere, just send them the link, and they’ll send a removal request fast. Get 60% off today!*
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📞 Paid to spill: A new app called Neon pays you to record your calls: 30¢ a minute, max $30 a day for a little self-spying. It then sells your voice data to AI companies. It’s already No. 2 in Apple’s social charts. Once your voice is out there, it could be cloned, hacked or scammed into oblivion. I think you should pass.
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